I've often said that adult ballet students fall into one of two categories: those who are looking to improve, and those who just want to dance. I'm definitely in the first category, and I make sure to let my instructors know that I'm here for the corrections.
After receiving some subtle tweaks in body positioning during barre, I found myself having a good balance day. Later, during a centre exercise involving a mixture of pirouettes, I realized I was putting too much energy into the turns and that was causing me to rotate further than the single turn called for. Just for fun, I let an en dedans turn continue and landed a fairly clean double. I've never even tried a double en dedans pirouette before!
Naturally, I couldn't do it a second time. Trying it on the other side didn't work either, nor did attempts at double en dehor pirouettes. But, as one of my instructors observed, the first time something like this happens it's a miracle. But then the miracle happens again. And then it happens more frequently. Eventually it becomes something you try to perfect, rather than it being a miracle.
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